Community for WordPress.org or is It just for WordPress.com

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  yourmoderatemama · Member · Sep 7, 2014 at 6:31 pm

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  When I started my blog I only knew about wordpress.org so I bought a domain and off I went.

  But I LOVE the community base at wordpress.com!!!

  So now I am duplicating my site here!! I don’t really want to manage 2 blogs so my question is…

  Can only wordpress.com sites be apart of this community or can I sign up my wordpress.org site?

  I will happily cancel my host domain and transfer all my yourmoderatemama.com stuff to my yourmoderatemama.wordpress.com site.

  I’m not in this to make money… I am just stuck at home with 3 kids and I love to write. And finding a community of bloggers would be WONDERFUL!!

  Thanks for the help,
  Sarah

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Sep 7, 2014 at 6:37 pm

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  Can only wordpress.com sites be apart of this community or can I sign up my wordpress.org site?

  Only blogs that are being hosted by WordPress.COM are part of the WordPress.COM blogging community. Please read this comparison so your are clear on the differences and the limitations on WordPress.com blogging http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  See here for registering a WordPress.COM blog https://en.wordpress.com/signup/ and see here moving your content into it http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-from-wordpress-org

  re: mapping an existing domain

  WordPress.com provides free blogs and free hosting for them. WordPress.com does not accept domain name transfers but mapping to an existing domain can be done.

  Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made it and the domain mapping purchase here every year.

  Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading

  Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually. In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from. If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchase a domain name by purchasing an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades is where you do the primary blog set up knowing it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.